Medium Severity
VIP impersonation with BEC language (near match, untrusted sender)
Description
Sender is using a display name that matches the display name of someone in your $org_vips list.
Detects potential Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks by analyzing text within email body from untrusted senders.
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Sublime Security
Created May 29th, 2025 • Last updated Jul 16th, 2025
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Source
type.inbound
and any($org_vips,
0 <= strings.ilevenshtein(sender.display_name, .display_name) < 4
)
and any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents,
.name == "bec" and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
)
and (
(
profile.by_sender().prevalence != "common"
and not profile.by_sender().solicited
)
or (
profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
)
)
// negate sharepoint notifications originating from within the org
and not (
sender.email.email in ('no-reply@sharepointonline.com')
and length(headers.reply_to) > 0
and all(headers.reply_to, .email.domain.root_domain in $org_domains)
)
// negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
and (
(
sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
and not headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
)
or sender.email.domain.root_domain not in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
)
and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
Playground
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